Word: iq
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never seen crayons, children's books, raw carrots or dogs (barred in the project). Many of them rarely see their fathers; others see too much of them because the men are jobless. Society has a way of dealing with boys like Eric. Sooner or later, they take an IQ test, get labeled "stupid." and quit school. The tests reflect "cultural" knowledge-things like dogs, crayons and fathers...
While raising bricks* and mortar, Hesburgh drastically revamped the curriculum, tossed out vocational courses by the score. He held down undergraduate enrollment, let graduate enrollment (now 795) grow. To get better students, he raised admission standards; the average IQ of entering freshmen has gone from 118 to 127. Since 1954, average College Board scores have risen 78 points to 536 on the verbal aptitude test, and 77 points to 579 on the math aptitude test...
Bender also said that admissions officers ought to look for qualities beyond "test-scoring intelligence" but that a youth with a high IQ would not necessarily lack those extra qualities...
...Though all Culver boys above eighth grade are enrolled in R.O.T.C., drill is confined to Saturday mornings in warm weather. Hazing is nonexistent; newcomers are plebes for only one term, are obliged only to call old students "Mr." More important are Culver's stiff entrance exams (average cadet IQ: 120) and drill in such matters as college algebra, Latin and Russian. Often recruited from Culver's resoundingly successful summer camp, the boys seem to thrive on the school's theory that esprit de corps enhances the spirit of study. "I didn't know how to work...
...between have and have-not schools, with special emphasis on the "social dynamite" building up in big-city Negro ghettos. Sociologist Patricia C. Sexton's Education and Income (Viking; $6), focusing specifically on the same problem in Detroit, argues persuasively that underprivilege equals undereducation and that low IQ often, and unfairly, reflects low income...